WMG / Ducktales 2017 Meta And Shout Outs

They're gonna give some Gravity Falls shout outs.

The new show seems to have a similar family adventure vibe GF has, Webby looks like she's got Mabel's personality, and Uncle Scrooge was probably a big inspiration for Stan. Plus GF was Disney XD's biggest show. My guess is the nephews will be calling him Grunkle Scrooge occasionally.

• Well, one of the promo images show Webby with a grappling hook.
• Plus a few people that worked on Gravity Falls are working on the show.
• Guess: Bill Cipher will be an antagonist at some point.
  • I don't know about being a antagonist let alone a character, but he has made cameos.
• Scrooge will be revealed to have a polydactyl but otherwise identical twin who, on Scrooge's opinion, wasted a college grant on the supernatural.
  • They've already started the 'missing twin' plot with Donald's sister and the triplets' mom Della.

There will be a show that's a parody of Doctor Who

Either Huey will be the biggest fan of the show or there will be an episode where Huey and Scrooge bond over a shared love of the show.

An episode involving Scrooge turning evil or having an evil clone will have him acting like Kilgrave

And it'll be just as scary as anything Kilgrave ever did.

• Considering it's still Scrooge, his Evil Plan will be on the same level as Frugal Lucre's.

This show exists in the universe of the original series (which itself is a part of the overall Disney universe).

It's an in-universe (general) adaptation of the adventures of Scrooge and his family, which he, his nephew Donald, and his great-nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and Webby (at least) are personally involved with. However...

Except for Scrooge and Donald themselves, the other characters are played by professional actors.

For the most part, it wasn't their decision, but Scrooge was able to convince the (in-universe) makers of the show to let him play himself, even though the makers would have preferred to have everyone (with Donald originally planned as the lone exception) played by actors.^note Oh yeah, for HD&L, and Webby, they are likely being played by three boys and a girl they auditioned, since the makers refused to have the "real" HD&L and Webby play themselves.

There will be some Doctor Who shout-outs.

Even if it's something as simple as Scrooge saying "Allons-y!" once.

• Downplayed, but there are some:
  • In one of the teaser shorts, Scrooge has a time machine.
  • One of Scrooge's greatest enemies, Magica, is voiced by fellow Doctor Who actor Catherine Tate.
  • The season 1 finale is called "The Day of the Ducks!", which sounds a lot like the title of the 50th Anniversary Special of Doctor Who.

There will be some Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja shout-outs.

We have Ben Schwartz, the voice of everyone's favorite freshman ninja voicing Dewey, an his new persona seems similarly keen and "bruce"!.

There will be some shout-outs to Marvel and Star Wars.

Perhaps many references to Iron Man when Gizmoduck enters the picture.

• The way Fenton summons the Gizmoduck suit and it goes flying to him is very similar to how Tony Stark summons the Iron Man suit.

If Magica DeSpell appears in the series, she'll use her magic to brainwash one of the triplets (except Dewey) or Webby.

The spell she uses will only work if her target is feeling negative emotions, and Dewey will be the one who figures out how to break it.

• The person Magica brainwashes is Lena. It doesn't work like in the other show.

there will be a Kingdom Hearts shoutout

• Keith Ferguson plays Marluxia. Have him and Donald face off with Donald holding a wand that casts elemental spells
  • bonus if the wand casts the wrong spells/spells too late. His AI is a tad glitchy
• Alternatively he wears his kh outfit at some point.
  • Or maybe Glomgold wears a black coat at some point like Organization XIII.

Paperinik will be a separate character inspired by Donald's adventurer past

Fenton will express a desire to write a Broadway musical about Scrooge's life one day.

• Fenton himself will play the lead character, of course.
  • It would also fit as a Mythology Gag, calling back to the time Fenton had to fill in for Scrooge, only to get Lost in Character.

A plot point from Gravity Falls is going to end up repeating itself here.

Basically, Dewey and Webby keeping secrets about Della is going to blow up in a spectacular fashion once Huey and Louie find out, and a villain of great power — like Magica or Merlock — is going to use this to their advantage. It might even merge with the above mentioned Magica DeSpell brainwashing theory.

• Jossed. The secret's out, and while it did blow up, it wasn't that spectacular and no one exploited it.

If Della's on the moon, and we get an episode featuring her there, we'll hear the beloved Moon theme from Ducktales.

• Confirmed! In the final scene of the Season 1 finale, a snippet of the theme is played as Della is revealed to be alive on the Moon.
• And in the first Della-centric episode of Season 2, it gets lyrics.
• It turns out to be the lullaby that Donald sang to the triplets when they were young.

One of the agents of S.H.U.S.H. will be a blue platypus.

He will be more anthropomorphic than Perry, but he will have his trademark fedora, and his codename will be Agent P.

• Jossed by Word of God.

The Moonlanders will have a queen whose looks will be based on the Grand Councilwoman.

The Grand Councilwoman already looks like the same species of alien as Lunaris and Penumbra. Incorporating her design in the show would be a nice Shout-Out to one of the less exposed Disney characters.

There is an anthropomorphic version of William Shakespeare.

And he's written various plays, including one called Simba that's basically The Lion King (1994) except anthropomorphized and slightly closer to the real-life Shakespeare play it was loosely inspired by.

• The original series episode "Much Ado About Scrooge" revolves around the works of a playwright named William Drakespeare. Perhaps Drakespeare exists in this continuity too?
• Drakespeare is comfirmed to exist in the 2017 continuum by namedrop in the second episode of This Duckburg Life.

Every episode with Darkwing Duck in it will have a cameo by Tad Stones.

And in every episode, he will play a different character - similarly to how Stan Lee had a cameo in every movie based on a Marvel property.

If Darkwing Duck does get its own reboot series, it will premiere in 2021.

30 years to the premiere of the original. Just like this series to is own original.

A Darkwing Duck reboot would be full of Leaning on the Fourth Wall meta humor.

Because the original was made a Show Within a Show in the DuckTales reboot, references to the old show will often be sprinkled throughout. And writers will use this as a way to reference moments in the actual old show under the pretense of characters referencing the in-universe old show.

Darkwing Duck is getting a reboot.

When asked if Darkwing would be a part of DuckTales now or getting a reboot, Frank Angones replied, "Darkwing will return in DuckTales for sure." But he's doing the exact same thing he did when asked whether or not Gosalyn was part of the Show Within a Show version of Darkwing Duck—he didn't say yes or no, he just said "Darkwing without Gosalyn is not Darkwing," and let the fans come to their own conclusion before revealing the truth in "The Duck Knight Returns!" He's invoking Exact Words to avoid spoiling. Otherwise, he would've said, "Darkwing's staying on DuckTales; no reboot." This is because Darkwing's not leaving the show right away, but he will be getting his own show soon enough after this one establishes his real-life superhero career enough.

There will be some shot-outs to the Buffyverse

Like the three books with Wolf, Ram & Hart insignias on their covers respectively inside the Magica's library. C'mon, such a murderous and depraved sorceress like Magica almost certainly would be considered by Senior Partners as a valuable ally in spreading their influence.

Beakley and Monterey Jack will have a rivalry similar to that of Chef Louis and Sebastian

The introduction of the Rescue Rangers into the show will involve Beakley discovering Monty chowing down on some of Scrooge's cheese and her attempts at catching him will lead to a comical sequence where she gets increasingly unhinged in her efforts and wrecks the kitchen in the process

The crossover with Goof Troop will have a couple shout-outs to Kingdom Hearts

Goofy will use a shield or something resembling a shield to fight with during an action sequence.

Once this series ends, other Disney Afternoon cartoons will be remade to continue its legacy

• With Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and TaleSpin all being integrated into this reboot, that gives way for plenty of new territory. They'll probably start with Darkwing for obvious reasons.

Some time in the future, new characters introduced in both DuckTales will get comic book counterparts.

While the two main men of the Disney Ducks Comic Universe seem to prefer distancing themselves from the DuckTales title, other writers in the franchise as time and culture moves on may take interest in coming up with their own spins on popular series characters that fit into the comics' setting. And given comics-originating characters like Scrooge McDuck have themselves made the jump further back into the Classic Disney Shorts that inspired the Duck comics in the first place, currently DuckTales-exclusive characters could be just as likely to appear in future Classic Disney Shorts as well.

Following the series' end, a movie will be made exclusively for Disney+

The sudden announcement of DT2017 ending after its third season took many of us aback. But even with confirmation of the Grand Finale happening in 2021, it is still possible there are more plans for the series - DuckTales World Showcase Adventure is slated to open this year and then there's the Darkwing Duck reboot ^note although there is no word whether this will be related to DT's Darkwing Duck.Even with all this aside, it was evident that the series would be wrapping up - each of the triplets has had a development arc, F.O.W.L. seems perfect as the endgame conflict, and many loose ends are wrapping up. Though one particular element of the original DuckTales series has yet to show up: Merlock, the main antagonist of the original Movie. A movie based on the reboot could reintroduce Merlock and help give proper closure to the series. It wouldn't be the first show to get a movie on streaming after its cancellation (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, to name one example).

If the podcast does well enough we might possibly get a season 4